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Action, Motor-Bike Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Biker Cary Ford stops at a diner owned by his ex-girlfriend Shane. Later, Ford meets up with his best friends Dalton and Val. En route to a motorcycle party, they encounter the Reapers, a biker gang consisting of leader Trey and his brothe…
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Dark Comedy, crime film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In Austria in the 1930s, Baron Kurt von Sepper is a World War I veteran fighter pilot with a reputation as a "ladykiller" and a frightening blue-tinged beard. In public the Baron carefully maintains his image as a war hero, a seemingly dev…
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Dance Film, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film
In Miami, a flash mob, later identified as "The Mob", shuts down Ocean Drive briefly by cutting off the streets with retro convertibles and dancing on cars to music blasted by DJ Penelope. A few hours later, Sean Asa, Eddy, and Jason Hardl…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
Stanwyck plays Leona Stevenson, a spoiled, bedridden daughter of a millionaire. The telephone is her sole connection with the outside world. One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed phone connection, she eavesdrops on two men…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film
Former LAPD detective Andre Shame is a wisecracking, gun-toting private investigator who owns A Low Down Dirty Shame Investigations. He runs it with his energetic and talkative assistant Peaches Jordan, whom he arrested shoplifting six yea…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Roughly one year after the events of the previous film, Paul Kersey is back in Los Angeles and is living a quiet life as an architect at his own firm, haunted by nightmares of his past as a vigilante. Erica Sheldon, the teenage daughter of…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, film noir
The story follows Joe Diamond, a man haunted by his past, who uses his exceptional wit and keen observation skills to uncover hidden truths and solve crimes in this contemporary noir tale.
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Crime, Horror comedy, comedy horror, romantic comedy, vampire film
Marie is a vampire in contemporary Pittsburgh, with a moral code that limits her bloodsucking to the criminal elements of society. After feasting on mafioso Tony Silva, she shoots him in the head with a shotgun to cover up the bite marks o…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, prison film
Eric, 19, is "starred up" from a juvenile prison to a high security adult prison, based on his age and his history of violent behaviour. His father, Neville, is serving a life sentence at this prison, and is a lieutenant for the crime boss…
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LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, splatter film, thriller film
Artist Reno Miller and his girlfriend Carol enter a Catholic church and approach his estranged, derelict father. The derelict seizes Reno's hand, causing him and Carol to flee from the church. Unknown to Reno, his father slipped him a piec…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Jimmy Kilmartin is a reformed ex-convict living in Astoria, with his wife Bev and their daughter. Both Jimmy and Bev are recovering alcoholics. One day, Bev leaves Jimmy alone to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, teen film
Howie Blitzer is deeply affected by the death of his mother in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway. His situation is exacerbated by his acrimonious relationship with his distant father Marty, who brought a trophy girlfriend into t…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
In London, Sir Charles Braithwaite, Commissioner for Scotland Yard, struggles to solve an organized crime case involving a gang which has been performing robberies across Europe. Britain's Prime Minister decides to request outside help to …
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crime film
A young girl wakes up on an aeroplane and finds everybody asleep. Panic stricken, she answers a ringing mobile phone, only to hear the voice of Jim Moriarty announce, "Welcome to the final problem". After Sherlock stages a break-in at Mycr…
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Action, Detective Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
Picking up four years after The French Connection left off, New York City police officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle still searches for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier. The department sends him to Marseille to track down Charnier. Once there,…
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Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for 30 years before being laid off. To support his disabled wife and his child, he begins marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais withdraws all h…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
New York City police detective Joe Leland is called to the home of a murder victim who has been beaten to death, head crushed, and has had his penis removed. Puzzled and disgusted, the police on call are left bemused, and Leland holds thin…
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Action, Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, Komödie, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Sergeant Joe Gavilan is a financially strapped homicide detective with the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. He has been moonlighting as a real estate agent for seven years. His current partner is Detective K.C.
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Thriller, crime film
After a corrupt legal guardian puts Ann, a grandmother, in a care home in order to take her property, Ann looks for vengeance with the help of her granddaughter Emma, who calls her "The G". The film is set on the industrial edges of an unn…
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Crime, Forensic, Komödie, Thriller, comedy thriller, crime film, romantic comedy
Tom Logan, an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has his sights set on being the next District Attorney. Laura Kelly, an attorney representing performance artist Chelsea Deardon, seeks out Logan to dis…
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Action, Komödie, Spaghetti Western, Western, action film, comedy film
Three hitmen, Willy, Norwood, and Simms, are staying in a Los Angeles hotel. After failing a job, they take off in a car with Velma, Norwood's pregnant wife. They flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss, Amos Dade, robbing a bank …
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Daffy Comedy, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
A group of professors, all bachelors except for one widower, have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts, is a grammarian who is r…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime, thriller film
Alcoholic Rayburn Swanson is the owner of the Gwen Swanson Sanctuary in northern Minnesota, named after his missing daughter. The sanctuary is an act of penance, both because Gwen disapproved of his trapper lifestyle and because she had di…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
The film begins with the funeral of one of the three Tempio brothers, a set of violent criminals. Mourning the passage of their beloved brother Johnny are Chez and Ray. Ray is cold and calculating, while Chez is hot tempered.
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